I was looking through my tons of paper ephemera and found this 1969 booklet. If anyone wants the patterns-pm me. That 2 piece bathing suit looks groovy!! And I love the Bonnie and Clyde Look suit.

I added some more pics that were in the pattern booklet. Oh-if you want the pattern, be sure to pm a snailmail address.I wore a dress exactly like the orange crocheted one, but in purple, to my ninth grade dance

I really enjoyed making a doll for the art toy challenge and it seems to be an addiction now. Here is Frida Kalho-I donated her to an auction at an art show I was in recently and she caused a bidding war!!!These were the only pics I got-sorry a little blurred. She's made of old soda can aluminum, a wooden block,plastic skeleton pieces, loteria piece, fabric, spray paint, altoid tin, silk flowers and paper. I have several more started ]

So this is the sister to my last painted end table http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=199438.0Instead of Gypsy this one is Dutch. I used some old pages from a great children's book called Children of Other Lands (the bindings had fallen apart.Then I glued a little dutch shoe ship to the shelf.

The Colorado Springs Craft Mafia will be making their debut at the Nocturnal Mockery 6 Art Show and Happening! Admission is $5, Fri-5 to mid,Sat noon to midnight and Sunday 12 to 7. Several Craftsters are showing art pieces. It should be quite an interesting experience. PM me for more info.

I know this isn't too outrageous, but every year since I was a little girl (that;s a long time ) I've made a scarecrow out of old clothes for Halloween. This year he's sitting on my funkrustico log throne http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=200284.0 and my pumpkins are blue-well bluish green. They're called Australian blue pumpkins and they grew like crazy this year-none of my orange ones did

I wanted to see how stamps would look cut "backwards" that is-the penciled edge cut negative. They look like little linocuts.I tried for Frida Kalho, but my DH says it looks like a balinese dancer Frida!Then this is inspired by Rossetti's Monna VannaI used Dick Blick artists block and a trusty exacto.

I posted a little chair that I found in the alley beforehttp://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=179007.0and this is her twin. This one is a little more cynical as you can tell from the pictures, maybe not totally appropriate for a nursery I've added several layers of polyurethane since I took these pics. I wanted to leave it "cool" looking, so I just used a cream paint and not a lot of trim. The text and pictures are all from an old school reader. I think Mom looks a little Marilyn Monroish!